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On Tuesday at the International CES trade show in Las Vegas, former New York Times Tech columnist David Pogue unveiled the revamped Yahoo Tech during a keynote speech by CEO Marissa Mayer. By all accounts his presentation was vintage Pogue – energetic, loud and irreverent. It also insulted many of the people who were in the audience.
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The latest bombshell leak from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reveals that: “The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches.”
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I’ll be blunt: You may think you’re great at multitasking, but odds are you suck at it. That’s the conclusion of groundbreaking research by Stanford professor Clifford Nass, who died Saturday of a heart attack. Nass, who was 55, authored a 2009 study that found most people are terrible multitaskers, even though they think they’re […]
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Square, the company that simplified the ability to accept credit cards, has a new product that makes it very easy to send cash to a friend. How easy? You just send the recipient an email with the amount and boom: The money appears in their bank account.
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AT&T is partnering with Filip, a startup that has developed a smartwatch just for kids. Filip’s device includes a GPS, a phone and a emergency alert button in a stylish plastic watch designed to be worn on the wrist of a child between the ages of 4 and 11.
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Last week, a Federal Aviation Administration panel recommended that the longstanding rule requiring passengers to power down personal electronics for takeoff and landing be ditched. There’s a good chance you will soon be able to fly without interrupting that novel you’re enjoying on your Kindle or the game of Candy Crush Saga on your iPhone.